Kaun Likh raha hain tumhari Kismat?_Aamir Reviewed

Two hard hitting movies for a single weekend (out of which one hits where it hurts most) was lit too much to take. As I happened to watch SarkarRaj for Friday noon show, I desperately wanted to see Aamir.

Reasons:

1. Gut feeling, and to my luck it always holds good for me.

2. Music, I heard "Fass Gaya" and "Mehfuz" on ETC Channel and I really loved the sound.

3. Rajiv Khandelwal~ Honestly I have very little respect for all those big guns from daily soaps. We have few past examples, Amar Upadhyay: Mihir from Kyunki..(his popularity dragged him out of aograve), Ketaki Dave ("Ararara!!" her whole life stuck to these words and as others end up saying just "Arararaah!"). But I heard loads of nice things about this fellow.

4. Director RajKumar Gupta (Strange co-incidence RGV's SarkarRaj and RKG's Aamir got released on same day) was assistant of Anurag Kashyap. and I have deep respect for Mr. Kashyap.

So the reasons were enough but not the theatres. Aamir was screening in only 4 cinema halls in Hyderabad that too on very odd timings. But we knew for sure that we won't be having tough time for getting tickets. As 90% of audiences were going back empty handed as they could not manage SarkarRaj tickets, we returned with triumph. Only balcony tickets were sold out where as entire stall was empty and that was telling the story of Aamir's box office fate.

Plot:

Aamir Ali, a London returned smart doctor was waiting eagerly for his family at Mumbai air-port when suddenly 2 bike riders throw a mobile phone at him. Much to his surprise phone rings and the call was for him.

Within no time his luggage has been taken away and Aamir has been forced to sit inside the cab. The voice at the other end of the call knows each and everything about Aamir. Soon Aamir discovers that his family has been kid-napped and the voice started playing a brutal treasure hunt with him. The hunt becomes gruesome as he has been asked to go down at the underbelly of the Mumbai city, filthy lanes, sultry gallis, shoddy places, tacky toilets all to find out a red colored briefcase. Within a daytime his cloistered life has been thrashed upside down.

Impact:

The winning point for the movie is that you get involve with Aamir from word Go. You get distressed, dejected with him and at times you want to vent.

And what is this all for?

Movie reveals (or at least touched) the unseen conflict between Muslim extremists and secularists. And what hits (and hurts too) is the climax of the movie.

What adds to this picture perfect is the characters taken right away from the streets of Dongari,Bandra and Bhendi Bazzar. Rajiv Khandelwal carries the movie with great stature. This is one of the best debut I have seen in years, So does the camerawork as camera moves in narrow lanes of the Mumbai City.

Special accolades for Amit Trivedi the music director, his background score is haunting and the songs are top notch. Aamir is one of those movies which left you speechless at the end (I had same feeling after Satya, Bandit Queen, Earth 1947 etc.)

It's small movie both in terms of budget and lenth; just 100 minutes long experience.The movie has caption "Kaun kehta hain aadmi apnee kismat khud likhata hain?" and looking into circumstances in Aamir was you do ponder over that thought. And as per me, that's the winning point for the movie, It makes you think. A great applause to all creative team behind Aamir.

A must see.....

Oh by the way AAMIR means Leader.